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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Is This The End For The Pirate Bay? Swedish police raid ‘downs Pirate Bay,’ website back online

The Pirate Bay and several other torrent websites temporarily
disappeared from the internet on Tuesday. Reports say the sites were
downed in a raid by Swedish police, which seized servers, computers, and
equipment of previously elusive web pirates.

The Pirate Bay siteappeared back online late on Tuesday, changing
its web domain to .cr (Costa Rica). Prior to that, however, it
was reportedly unavailable for hours.

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater
Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright
law,” police national coordinator for IP enforcement, Paul
Pintér, said in a statement, as quoted by TorrentFreak.

Other details are being kept under wraps, including the location
of the operation and exact targets.

The operation took place in the morning and lasted into the
afternoon, expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad
told Radio Sweden (SR).

“There were a number of police officers and digital forensics
experts there. This took place during the morning and continued
until this afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized,
but I cannot say exactly how many,” Ingblad said.

There are reports of at least one man being detained in
connection to the case, according to TorrentFreak.

Swedish Metro reported that Ingblad initiated the police effort.
Other sites reportedly downed by the raid include EZTV, Zoink,
Torrage, and the Istole tracker.

The Pirate Bay’s forums were also offline, including Suprbay.org,
Bayimg.com, and Pastebay.net.

In November, police arrested the third and final co-founder of
The Pirate Bay, Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who spent four years
on the run from authorities.

The 36-year-old Swede, known in hacking communities as 'TiAMO,'
was on his way to Thailand with his Laotian wife when he was
detained at a border checkpoint in Nong Khai under a warrant
issued by Interpol.

Earlier in September, The Pirate Bay announced new cloud
technology which made its servers “raid proof,” adding that the
21 “virtual machines” (VMs) were scattered around the globe with
cloud-hosting providers.

The cloud technology reportedly made the site more portable and
made the torrent harder to take down.